Smart Contract Impact Assessment for Cloud Component Changes
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Solution Overview
Problem
The complexity of integrating new components in cloud computing environments introduces risks of resource vulnerabilities and incompatibilities, leading to potential operational issues, revenue loss, and degraded customer experience due to the lack of early impact assessment on service teams.
Innovation Solution
Implementing smart contracts to identify and assess the impact of new components on service teams early in the design process, allowing for proactive planning and decision-making by validating component changes against service teams and identifying workflow dependencies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If new components are integrated into cloud computing environments, then functionality and capacity are improved, but resource vulnerabilities and incompatibilities increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements impact assessment processes that evaluate new components before they are integrated into the cloud environment. This preliminary action identifies potential vulnerabilities and incompatibilities in advance, allowing teams to address issues before deployment, thus maintaining reliability while enabling functional improvements
2Adaptability or versatility
If new components are integrated into cloud computing environments, then functionality and capacity are improved, but incompatibilities increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces service teams as intermediaries between new components and the existing cloud environment. These teams conduct impact assessments that mediate the integration process, identifying and resolving incompatibilities before full integration occurs, thus enabling functionality while managing complexity
3Reliability
If impact assessment is conducted early in the design process, then operational risks are reduced, but time and resources for validation increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent conducts impact assessments early in the design process, performing validation activities before full implementation. This preliminary action identifies and addresses potential issues while the system is still being designed, reducing operational risks without significantly increasing overall project time since issues are caught before they require costly fixes later
4Reliability
If comprehensive impact assessment is performed on all service teams, then operational reliability is improved, but process complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the impact assessment process into separate assessments for different service teams (e.g., hardware service teams, software service teams). Each team assesses only the components relevant to their domain, segmenting the overall complexity while maintaining comprehensive coverage for operational reliability
Data Source
AI summary
A method, computing system, and computer program product for generating a plurality of smart contracts, each of the plurality of smart contracts associated with a respective service team, and each of the plurality of smart contracts identifying components impacting each respective service team. One or more component changes associated with a proposed design are received. The one or more component changes are validated against components impacting each respective service team to identify impacts associated with the proposed design by at least a portion of the plurality of smart contracts.